I saw the offending clip. I agree completely that it has no place being where it was, would kiddies who watch that program be old enough or aware enough to understand what the guy was talking about?
I predict that fashion will adapt to mass surveillance and people will start to dress and make-up in a variety of ways intended to thwart automated ID and tracking systems. Fake beards, mustaches, eye patches, sunglasses, makeup, mixed shoes (platform on one foot, sandal on the other, etc.), leg braces, walking sticks, surgical masks, hats that cover different parts of the face, etc.
Think of the profits to be had from lassoing that "rock" and bringing it back to earth! We could close down the melamine mines forever! No one will ever have a yucky bathtub again!
First it was zombies, then came the comic book super-heroes. I'll be glad when Hollywood gets back to making more movies that actually have stories and quality acting.
how much money is enough? The principals in a biotech company made a couple billion $ and then ran out of patients? Boo-hoo.
If you develop a cure for one disease, you may run out of patients who need that cure, but there are always other diseases that need to be cured. If you don't want to risk your money on the development of another cure, retire to your private island and let someone else do the work.
pound foolish. Why would a smart person risk that much money on something as notoriously unreliable as bitcoin just to save a few $ in wire transfer fees?
Yeah, I suppose you're right. Civilization and society have no benefit to anyone and we should all be able to just do whatever we want whenever we want to do it. I mean, what's the point of having laws? I don't want some people I don't know telling me what I can and can't do. Screw that. Why should those people have authority over me just because I happen to live in the same country or state, or city as them? I didn't ask them to build all those roads and utility systems that have been around since before I was born. Why should I pay taxes to maintain, repair, or expand them? Let it all fall apart.
Why do people like you always post as anonymous cowards?
Vaccines are not 100% risk free. That said, the risk of injury from the vaccine is many orders of magnitude lower than the risk from the disease, so yes, vaccinate.
Measles has long and short term effects. Some die in the short term. Others suffer the effects years later. Short term or long term, both have a negative effect on society/economy.
When idiots and people with bad intent are given as loud a voice as people with expertise and good intention, the result is anarchy, schemes like Bitcoin, and unqualified people getting elected to public office. The only ways to combat it are to teach critical thinking skills and start requiring some basic qualifications other than having access to a computer, to gain access to platforms that amplify a person's influence.
"No one knew that 'muricans don't work as long hours or as cheaply as Chinese workers... so sad!" "no one knew that very few TVs or computer monitors are made in America" "no one knew it could get so damned cold in Wisconsin in the winter" "no one knew that Foxconn laid off 10k workers in an LCD plant in Taiwan at about the same time they were announcing the deal in Wisconsin to employ 13k people building LCDs."
Walker got fox-conned, and the taxpayers got screwed. In the last election, in which Walker was running for reelection, Foxconn was rarely mentioned in campaign speeches. I wonder what he knew...
I wonder if my property tax (I live 2 miles from the Foxconn facility) will go back down to prefoxconn levels...
That depends on how you define "worse". When robots get advanced enough to put most men out of work, they'll be advanced in other ways, too. Out of work because of a robot? You'll have more time to make love to your robot "girlfriend"...
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and put it in the hands of the trolls. Great idea! I can't wait to see the result...
I saw the offending clip. I agree completely that it has no place being where it was, would kiddies who watch that program be old enough or aware enough to understand what the guy was talking about?
What was the original context of that clip?
USB 5G? That will make everyone happy, because you know, 5G. Everyone wants 5G.
I predict that fashion will adapt to mass surveillance and people will start to dress and make-up in a variety of ways intended to thwart automated ID and tracking systems. Fake beards, mustaches, eye patches, sunglasses, makeup, mixed shoes (platform on one foot, sandal on the other, etc.), leg braces, walking sticks, surgical masks, hats that cover different parts of the face, etc.
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Think of the profits to be had from lassoing that "rock" and bringing it back to earth! We could close down the melamine mines forever! No one will ever have a yucky bathtub again!
Really.
You've mistaken scientology for a religion.
First it was zombies, then came the comic book super-heroes. I'll be glad when Hollywood gets back to making more movies that actually have stories and quality acting.
how much money is enough?
The principals in a biotech company made a couple billion $ and then ran out of patients? Boo-hoo.
If you develop a cure for one disease, you may run out of patients who need that cure, but there are always other diseases that need to be cured. If you don't want to risk your money on the development of another cure, retire to your private island and let someone else do the work.
here we go again with the 3D printed guns crap...
I'll say it again.
Reddit is a sewer.
Usenet used to be the sewer of the internet, then along came reddit, the bigger pipe into which usenet drains.
pound foolish. Why would a smart person risk that much money on something as notoriously unreliable as bitcoin just to save a few $ in wire transfer fees?
Do you think Trump is unqualified?
Yeah, I suppose you're right. Civilization and society have no benefit to anyone and we should all be able to just do whatever we want whenever we want to do it. I mean, what's the point of having laws? I don't want some people I don't know telling me what I can and can't do. Screw that. Why should those people have authority over me just because I happen to live in the same country or state, or city as them? I didn't ask them to build all those roads and utility systems that have been around since before I was born. Why should I pay taxes to maintain, repair, or expand them? Let it all fall apart.
Why do people like you always post as anonymous cowards?
Vaccines are not 100% risk free. That said, the risk of injury from the vaccine is many orders of magnitude lower than the risk from the disease, so yes, vaccinate.
Measles has long and short term effects. Some die in the short term. Others suffer the effects years later. Short term or long term, both have a negative effect on society/economy.
I don't know about the distribution across the political spectrum, but one thing is for sure, they are all stupid people.
When idiots and people with bad intent are given as loud a voice as people with expertise and good intention, the result is anarchy, schemes like Bitcoin, and unqualified people getting elected to public office. The only ways to combat it are to teach critical thinking skills and start requiring some basic qualifications other than having access to a computer, to gain access to platforms that amplify a person's influence.
we had to kill all of them. We can't have insects that are smarter than people buzzing around.
"The civility index in the U.S. fell ten points in the past year to 51, showing the biggest improvement, according to a blog post from Microsoft."
We're all finally coming to agreement about certain politicians...
"No one knew that 'muricans don't work as long hours or as cheaply as Chinese workers... so sad!"
"no one knew that very few TVs or computer monitors are made in America"
"no one knew it could get so damned cold in Wisconsin in the winter"
"no one knew that Foxconn laid off 10k workers in an LCD plant in Taiwan at about the same time they were announcing the deal in Wisconsin to employ 13k people building LCDs."
Walker got fox-conned, and the taxpayers got screwed. In the last election, in which Walker was running for reelection, Foxconn was rarely mentioned in campaign speeches. I wonder what he knew...
I wonder if my property tax (I live 2 miles from the Foxconn facility) will go back down to prefoxconn levels...
That depends on how you define "worse". When robots get advanced enough to put most men out of work, they'll be advanced in other ways, too. Out of work because of a robot? You'll have more time to make love to your robot "girlfriend"...
This doesn't make any sense.
Let's see, 20 employees at $20/hr x 8 hour shift = $3200/day Ignore overhead like power, water, lease, etc. $3200/1000 screws = $3.20 per screw.
Were they making them by hand?
Why didn't Apple just order the screws from China and ship them to the US for the factory to use to assemble the computers?
I know it's just a typo but that there's funny, y'all.
FTFY